Rhede Castle
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The Rhede Castle (also home Rhede called) in the same city in North Rhine-Westphalia can look back on a long tradition. The two-wing moated castle was built in its present form in 1564 by Lubbert of Rhemen, but goes to a castle back to the 13th century.
description
The castle rises on two floors above a high cellar. It has two brick wings that meet at right angles. The north-east wing with its curved stepped gable is still original from 1564 and has diamond bands made of blue-fired bricks on its gable sides.
The narrower south-west wing, however, was rebuilt in 1845/46 on the old foundation walls of its predecessor. The original shape of its tail gable is imitated only simplifies and his gable roof is a small ridge turret crowned. A twelve-step outside staircase from around 1740 leads to the portal there .
In the corner of the two wings there is an octagonal stair tower with three floors. It has an onion-shaped hood covered with slate and bears the alliance coat of arms of its builders Lubbert von Rhemen and his wife Hillegunde von Diepenbrock zu Kortenhorn.
Rhede Castle is surrounded by a large park that is not open to the public.
history
For around the middle of the 13th century, a castle of the Lords of Rhede on the site of today's moated castle is guaranteed. However, since the then lord of the castle Werner von Rhede sided with the Counts of Geldern during a feud against the Münster bishop Ludwig II of Hesse , the castle was destroyed by episcopal troops in 1324.
Afterwards it was rebuilt by the new owners, the Lords of Rhemen, but this new building was not spared from acts of war for long. Everhard von Rhemen made the city of Bocholt an enemy, and so Bocholt troops destroyed the castle seat with the exception of the keep once more.
A descendant of Everhard, Lubbert von Rhemen, had the old fortified tower torn down in 1546 and, together with his wife Hillegunde von Diepenbrock zu Kortenhorn, built a two-winged mansion , surrounded by a double moat , in the Renaissance style.
When the male line of the Rhemen family died out in 1695, Rhede Castle changed hands several times. In 1843 Count Alexander von Wartensleben sold the property with the Borg and Dorfbröcking goods for 65,000 thalers to Laurenz Friedrich Lancelle , a notary from Emmerich . He had the old southwest wing laid down and a new one built on the old foundations.
In 1860 the brothers Alfred and Emil zu Salm-Salm bought the property. Her family later chose it as their place of residence after their ancestral home, Anholt Castle in Isselburg, was badly damaged by bombs and became uninhabitable during World War II . The members of the Salm-Salm house still use the house as a residence today; Emanuel zu Salm-Salm and his family currently live there .
In 1980 the building and the directly adjacent park were restored. The former plaster was removed so that the underlying bricks could come into their own again.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2: Westphalia. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich 1969, p. 482.
- Erich Tönspeterotto, Birgit Cremers-Schiemann: Castles in the Münsterland . Artcolor, Hamm 1994, ISBN 3-89261-125-4 , p. 165.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry of the castle in the list of monuments of the city of Rhede , accessed on June 5, 2016.
- ↑ Hasso Lancelle: Jean Francois Lancelle on the Isselmannshof in Hamminkeln. In: Hamminkelner Verkehrsverein e. V. (Ed.): Hamminkeln calls. No. 29, May 1991, p. 4 ( PDF ; 5.9 MB).
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 24.5 ″ N , 6 ° 42 ′ 5.5 ″ E